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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1887)
•EHI-WEEKIY WEST SIDE VOL. I. M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, FEBRUARY 8, 1887. WEST SIDE 'TELEPHONE, ----- la» lied — EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY —IM— Garrison's Buildiaz. MuMimllle, Oregsa, — BY — Tulmnue Ac Turner, Tubliahors and Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SI* months.............................. Three months......................... .. ’1 25 .. 75 Entered in the Postoffice ut McMinnville, Or., as second-clans matte . H. V. V. JOHNSON, M. D. Northwest corner of Secoud and U streets, M c M innville - • . oregon May be found at his office when not absent on pro* («, iuual business. LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH, and Surgeons, Physicians M c M innville , oregon . Office over Brul>'s Bui k. S. A. YOUNG, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, M c M innville • c begun . • - Office and re i lenoe on D street. aaswred day or night. All calls promptly DR. G. F. TUCKER, DENTIST, McMINMVILLK - • OllEGOK. - Office—Two doors east of Bingham's furniture store. Laughing gis nd ministered for pUnlem ex’raction. ST. CHARLES HOTEL The Leading Hotel of McMinnville. *1 and $2 IIou c. Single meals 23 cents. Booms for Commercial Men Tins Sample F. Ml LTN’ER, Prop. NV. V. PRICE, PHOTOGRAPHER Up Stairs in Adams’ Building, M c M innville - oregon CUSTER POST BAND, The Best in the State. Is prepared to furnish music for all occasions at reason able rates. Address N. J. ROWLAND, Business M mager, McMinnville. M’MINNVILLE Livery Feed aiii Sale State Corner Third and D streets, McMinnville LOGAN BROS. & HENDERSON, Proprietors. The Best Rigs in ths City. Orders Promptly Attended to Day or Night. “ORPHANS’ HOME” BILLIARD HALL. A Strictly Temperance Resort. I eras good (?) Ohunh merrbers to the oontraiy hot- wit stun ing. “Orphans’ Home” TONSORIAL PARLORS, Ths only first clast, nnd the only parlor-llke shop in tb» city. None but Vlrst - clanm TEIÆPHONE. Workmen Employed First door south of Yamlii 1 County Bunk Building McMINNVIIX’., <»REG- >N. H. H WELCH. A ; - l (U hl ul • » *.i * par s.i, . is noted the e for If« remarkable Benn of snie.l. It is said t »at, on a ca m day, or w >cn the wind is blowing to *»rd him, he < an s nell a deer thirty Vi sixty yards. He is a pomilar h int- >ng companion with the ncighl o s who know of hi, p ,wer. IVhil i riding or walking thron h the wood, ho will •lop, throw up his head very much a, sdngi'oes when Im strike, a sc nt. •nd in this wav he rarely fail. Io 1 >cat the d er if t is with n gunshot d.s tsnee of him. —Russia tsgriinjw nave » .—iru«'« tunnel throe in les loa J. at a onto! $3.50tVW. She has 13,04) in les of railway, but hur oily tuiml is 701 Iards iong Moro gea it works of this ind are c mtemp at •.!, ami as Russian engineers :iro ign >ra nt of tnnnel-inak ing. there is a dema nl for foreign skill. —M Ilion« of washbosrds are mile •nd sold in th > Un ted Sta os every K*r. and at least 7.J >),’•> arc sold yearly between tho All-gh my Moun tain, and the Mi-«>uri rivir. Tier' •re two factories in <'level in I which turn out 2M do sen was ib > ir is a day, one in To'oilo which tur n out 3J0 dozen daily, and tw > inSt lx>il s which turn out over a tuiiiiou a year. — LA.ua- ALONG THE COAST. bevoted Principally t > Washington Territory and California. Spokane Falls has twenty-five resi dent lawyers. John Foley committed suicide at Sprague, W. T. ia 01,1 ol debt, with $75,- . WO in her treasury. I A man named J. D. Land was found dead in Santa Cruz, Cui. The new Territorial penitentiary at »Valla Walla has been completed. A Chinaman committed suicide by hanging himself, near Rutherford, Cal. Arthur McKeown . a laborer sui- ciiled at Stockton, Cal., with a pistol. The Nevada Legislature ha3 repealed the anti-treating law passed at the last session. Natural gas has been found at Salt Like City and it is being utilized in a small way. The new pnb’ic school house at Ellengburgh, W. T., is finished. The cost was $3,280. Indians on the Puyallup (W. T.) reservation are about to organize a K. of L. Assembly. An Italian vegetable peddler at Jackson, Cal , fell from his wagon and was fatally injured. The output of coal from the various mines on t lie Sound for 1886 aggre gated 328 159 tons. Leslie Payne was killed by a rock falling on him while digging a well near Goldendale, W. T. Tacoma Knights of Labor urge Dr. McUli nil to bill defiance to Rome and stand' by Henry George. John L. Dalitli committed suicide l>y cutting his throat at San Francisco. He was partially demented. Two schooners, the Irma and George R. Higgins, laden with lumber, were wrecked nt Whitesboro, Cal. Wm. Hayes was fatally stabbed by hi, son Daniel during a quarrel at their home in San Francisco. An epidemic of diphtheria prevail, in Salt Lake City, mid there have been many deaths from the distase. The Northern Pacific recenily ad vanced the wages of its employes on the western division ten per cent. Two new case, of diphtheria were reported at the health office in San Francisco, and two deaths from the same. P. McGinty, while doming the ash pan of a locomotive at Bagdad. A. T., was run over and both legs were crushed. The formation of a board of trade is one of the enterprise, that engages the a attention of Elleusburgh’s prom inent citizens. Tne trustees of the new insane asylum at Agnew,, Cui., estimate that it will cost $534 0)0 to put the estub lishment in working order. The Canadi in Pacific will likely be asked for $250,000 forfeit tor not com pleting the extension to Vancouver, B. U.,according to contract. There are seven militia companies now in Washington east, of the moun tain» and a regiment will probably be organized during the summer. James Hubbard, aged about 63 years, committed suicide at Calico, Cal., by hanging. The cause was des pondency over gambling losses. The mangled remains of W. G. Lake, formerly steward of the county hospital, were found at B uilder, Cal. He was run over anil killed by a train. A »tnge upset in San Luis Obispo, Cal., in coming down the Ceusta gr .de near Templeton, throwing out the passengeis and injuring them severely. The dwelling house of J.inies Mc Conville, near Tacoma, was burned. Mr. McConville is of the opinion that the house was first robbed and then ¡¡red. Tlios. II. Harvey, who niyeterious.y disappeared from San Francisco re cently, has turned up at Honolulu, having been shanghaied on board of a whaler. The canal that is being cut between lakes Washington ami Union at Seattle, it is expected will be ready to admit of the passage of steamers by next July. CoL Samuel Keefer, proprietor of the GraLdview hotel at Mmirovio. Los Angeles county, Cal., went into a private room of the hotel and shot himself through the head. Cbas. Russell, a Scotch painter, waa found dead in » room in a S*n Fran cisco hotel. Ke had I een drinking heavily and it is supposed that alcoli. 1 ism was the cau-e of his death. A petition is being circulated in Sacramento among the menilx rs of the legi-lature recomnieiidiiig W. W. Finite for commissioner tin ler the i.iter-state commerce railroad act. The striking carrncn of Sai Fran cisco have formed a corporation of their omnibus line under the title of the Cooperative Ommbns company. The capital stock is $10,000, divided into 2000 shares. Joe Gooddau, »ged □ years, son of NO. 69. -w- - S. II. Gooddau, was downed in the CONGRESSIONAL. BATTLEFIELD OF SEVEN PINES. RUSSIAN EXILES. Deer L dge live ', at Deer Lodge, Mon Fugitives from Justice Hunter! Dowa Like tana. He lias playing oil the ice with LATEST TKLEtZIt ll'IltC ItE 1»OItT. Neglact of th« Bon«« ot th« Slain—Th« the Wild Beasts of the Forest. other small i mi Iren and fell off the Sale of Boftu Relics—A Sharp Guide. A Syaop» ■ of k« lira .Qt oducad la the A graphic picture of tho condition of edge of the ice into the open water. It would be hard for any one who had National legislature. thoso unfortunates who are fitly do- □ot gone over the ground of one of the Capt. John II. Willey, well known scribed as ‘'lost souls” is drawn in the hottest battle» ever fought to believe Meaiute. in shipping circles, died in San Fran Hawley, from the select committee work on Siberia by tho Russian writer that twenty-four years afterward the cisco afier a few weeks’ illness, on board of the American ship Occiden on the Centennial celebration of the Jadrinzeff. But few of tho oxiles over bones of the slain lie half-hidden by tal, of which he was master. De adoption of the constitution, reported attain to tho possession of a “house,” leaves and brush by the score, and yet ceased h id followed the sea for fifty- a joint resolution providing for the by which is moant a miserab'o hut. such is the case. The theatre of the up pointing of a joint committee of Most of them are in reality the bonds great, but indecisive struggle at Seven five years. Pine» has been turned into a place A Colton (Cal) housewife sent some five Senators and eight Representa men of the Siberian peasants, by whom where a few men can reach financial tives to consider the expediency of of her husband's clothing to a Chinese they are hired; that is to say, they profit by guiding visitors to tho spot laundry-mail. Unknown to her, in a bidding, in 1392, an international ex remain in tlibir debt as long as they where skulls protrude from the ground, secret pi cket, was $100 in greenbacks. hibition of industries anil productions live, and are sat sti id whon thoy can and where all that remains of many 1 his the Chinamen took anil refused of all countries. Passed. brave lads who are numbered among the Gorman offered a preamble and re got money for drinking on holidays missing lie. It is difficult to escape the to give up. Four of Ilium are now iu trorn their mastirs. But as the major solution whose tones are very similar the county jail. guides, but it pays the visitor to make to those of the bill offered iu the House ity of the exiles are rogues and vaga A young man named Alexander by Belmont, of New York. It author bonds bv profession, who are afraid of liis own way over the field of battle. J’eterson was drowned near Sacra izes the president to prohibit transit work, the number of fugitives is con He does not follow the beaten path in which those who gain money by exhib mento, Cal. He was assisting iu ferry through the United States or Terri ing cattle across the river when the torial waters of any engines, cars, ves stantly increasing, who steal, rob and iting the bones of the boys who died railing of t e boat gave way and he sels or goods proceeding from Canada. plunder whenever a ehnneo offers, ami amid the roar of cannon and the rattle was thrown into the river and drowned. Dawes remaiked that every day the thus intensify tho natural antipathy of of musketry take their victims, and he the settlers against tho class of the de gams for himself positive information The Mexican gunboat Democrat ar grievance was more glariug and more ported. The peasantshave every cause of the actual condition of thing». rived at Guavmas, Mex , Jan 27, with inexcusable. • to be incensed against them, for, be A correspondent in oompany with Joins, from the Committee on In sides suffering from the malpractice» of several companions, slipped away from Cajeme, the Yaqui chief, a prisoner. This end» the war between the Ynquis dian Affairs, reported two Senate bills tho convict class, they have to bear the these guides and were horrified at what and the Mexicans, which existed two granting right of way to the Spokane cost of tho erection ami preservation of they found. Under the leaves and twigs, years. It is believed Cajeine named and Palouse and the Washington and prisons for the oxiles, organize hunts and among the thick brush of oak and Idaho Railroad companies through the for the capture of tho runaways, pro pines, which had Bprung up during liis own terms. vide guards for them and find the taxes thé last twenty years, the bones of many Willie and Charlie, aged 13 and 16, Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation. can not bo raised from among Mitchell introduced a bill to place which sons of Adjutant General Holme«, of the deported class. But the greatest brave men were found. They had an Victoria, were returning from a hunt the name of Wm. Weist of Hood gaps iu the ranks of tho exiles are swered to the order to charge the bat ing expedition, when a half cocked river, on the pensions roll; also to pay caused bv the alm »st systematic escape teries which stood on the other side of gun carried by Willie was discharged, Herman Smith, of Harrisburg, $3,678 of the latter from forced labor and from the plowed field and laid down their t^e convict settlements. No less than lives ere the outer intrenchment was the contents blowing the back of for depredations by the Indians. The credentials of Charles B. Far- tift 'en per cent, of the deporte I oscape taken. As night fell on tiie 30th of Charlie's head off, killing him in well, elected to fill the vacancy caused during transport. Many of them are May, 18U2, many of the boys failed to stantly. by the death of Gen. John A. Logan, »hot down like wild boasts by the pens answer the roll-call and were placed The bark Diana, Capt. J. Meyer, 740 and of Cushman H. Davis, of Minne ant.« and natives, and an observer of among the missing. It was a partly cul ton.«, lumber l.deu from Port Gamble, sota, were presented and placed on Siberian l.fc made a very true remark tivated field then. Now pines twenty W. T. to Sidney, was wrecked on Star file. when he said that Siberia would feet in height cover tiie bloody ground, buck Island, in the South Pa'diic, Au On motion of Dolph, the Senate soarce’y have been ablo to overpower and even stand on the breastworks from gust 11th. Tbecaptain and crew were pissed a resolution submitted by the runaway oxiles if the peasants had behind which the cannons belched saved. Eleven of them left in a boat | Mitchell early in the session, directing not annihilated them. forth death, and where the The most extreme measures to check marks of the wheels of the artil and were picked up and carried to the Secretary of War, through Hie en the system of escape are the hunts by lery are still visible. The bor.es of many Australia, gineer bureau, to investigate salmon natives, organized by tho Russian of the fallen still lie there, although the At Moab, U. T., William Gibson was fisheries on the Columbia river, the the government. The native receives throe shot and killed by Jo Young, ail In manner in which they are carried on, roubles if ho delivers the prisoner, fiag which liies from the staff in the dian boy, who had been brought up and to report to the Senate to what ••dead or alive,” to tho authorities. Si'ven Pines cemetery is within sight. among whites. A short time ago Gib- extent traps, wheels or nets interfere Tho peoplo are provided with good Whether these bones were clothed in the sou won a horse from Jo by gambling. with or obstruct navigation. arms and ammun t on, so as to make blue or the gray is unknown, but many The two met at a corral and quarreled, hunt ng the escaped prisoner a perfect men are ready to testify that whoever Iloase. it Is supposed about the lioise, and success. One of those few who man- was intrusted with the duty of collect In the bill favorably reported to the ngoil to escape was seized in his nativo ing those bones has failed in his trust. the shooting followed. Tho reason for the failure is manifest. House from the Committee on Com village, an I when brought before the A ,’reshet in Smith river carried the The fact that the bones still lie there merce, providing for the establishment court he said: "For two years I have schooner Stranger and the steam tug wanilored about, have swam through attract many people to the field of carn Pelican Ironi their moorings in the of certain lighthouses there, is a pro rivers and seas, have crossed Siberian age, and every one that falls into the stream. The schooner was thrown vision for the establishment of post forests, passed through steppes and dutches of the guides must pay his toll. upon the bank and the tug was swept lights on Puget saund at such points mountains, and no one has touched A party of twenty-one, which included against a rock and afterward» sank. as the lighthouse board may deem me, neither man nor beast: but here, several men from Philadelphia and Bth vessel» belonged to the Del necessary. Hermann presented a memorial of in my native village, 1 have boon seized vicinity, had to pay $5.25 for wnlking Norte Commercial company. east into chains.” The escape behind a guide for an hour. This ‘ same the Oregon City board of trade play and The people of Lopez island, W. T., ing for the appropriation of $15,000 from forced labor had become so com guide owns 700 acres of the land u|x>n will build two new churches in the lor the improvement of the Wiliam mon I hat tho administrators of convict which the battle was fought He began spring. The nece-sary funds lnve al ette between Portland and Oiegon establishments were in the habit of by purchasing one acre, for which he callingout, when receiving prisoners: paid $.'). Tiie same price was paid for ready been raised, and most excellent City. “Whoever wishes to stay, let him take grounds have been donated by the The House passed a bill giving a clothes; lio wlio runs away will not the remainder of the ground which he residents. One church is to be built pension of $12 a month to all indigent need them.” It should be observed has bought, and every cent of the money for the Methodist Episcopal denomin soldiers of any war the United States that the clothes left behind by escaped was extorted from visitors to the battle field. lie was ordered by the govern ation and the other for the Presby has ever been engaged in. It also convicts, so as to guard against cap ment to pick up all the bones, disinter terian. concurred in the Senate amendment ture, are the perquisites of the prison the buried soldiers and see that they During 1886 the Idaho mine ♦« to the Mexican pension bill, which authorities. While tho statistics show nn incredi- were removed to the cemetery just Grass Valley, Cal., made a gross yield now goes to the President for his ap across the road. Instead of doing so lie of $9,000,000, of which about $4,000,- proval. The bill grants a pension of b’e in rea«c in the number of crimes has placed tho skulls and other bones of tied by exiles, proving the citi- 000 have been paid in piofit in regular $8 |>er month to all surviving officers comm of tho system of deportation as the dead in various places and guides monthly dividends extending over a and enlisted men who served sixty ciency a corrective a ilelus on, they are equally the visitors by beaten paths to these period o' eighteen years. This is days in the Mexican war, and also to condemnatory of its much-vaunted spots. He never takes them through equivalent to $1 300 a share on the the widows and orphans of officers aud cheapness to the state. The cost of the thicket. Another dodge of this man 3,100 shares of capital stock of a par men. transport of a Siberian deporte is esti is to find a battered musket-ball on the value of $100. Hill, from the Committee on Terri mated nt 50 roubles ($37.50.) But in ground and sell it to the visitor for 50 William Mathers fell off the ice- tories, reported the Senate bill for the t iis estimato are not included the cost cents if he can, and for 10 cents if he of transport to tho main route (steam can get no more. The balls are dropped ilunie at Prosser Creek, Cal. Ho was adinisti >n of the State of Washington. ct's on the Volga and Kama, 1 and by him when the visitor is not looking, Hermann introduced the following pushing ice with his ice hotik when he thence to the placo of destination, the and picked up when he is looking. It bills to pay for depredations by In slipped and was prt cipitated over the maintenance of his family if he is ac railing, striking first on the roof of dians: Robert Smith, Douglas county, coinpanied by it, the maintenance in bothers the man, however, when tiie $515; Jno. P. Walker, Jackson county, the ice-house and rebounded into the prison till the spring, ns transports in the party he is guiding ia large, and river. Two ribs were broken and he $50J; Dick J. Smith, Curry county, winter have been abolished, ns well as when he dropped the ball last Sunday received some other cuts and bruises $1,370; F. M. Vanderpool, Coos county, the oust of the military guards, so that afternoon the action was seen, and relic $515. t io expense.« of transport for each con selling for that day waa at a very low which proved fatal. * By Morrow—A resolution of the vict to his placo of <b striation amount ebb. Suit has been commenced by R. C. California legislaturi asking for the t > about 300 r< ubles (9225,) a sum This battlefield relic craze is carried to Person, of the Cliff House, San restoration of ex-Gov. Stoneman to which would be sufficient to keep him a great length. More balls and burst Francisco, against S. B. Peterson for the retired list of the army, with the at least four year» in the dearest prison bombs have been sold represented as $5,000. The complaint alleges that rank of colonel. of European Russia. But this sum is having l>een picked up on the bloody through carelessness and negligence By Springer—Proposing a constitu raised to 80) rouble) (9600) by the ex ground of Seven Pine» than there were of the defendant the schooner Parallel, tional amendment changing the time pense attached to the maintenance of used in the seven days’ battle. Battered owned by him, blew up near the Cliff for the assembling of Cuiigre.s to the olappa routes, e«"orts, prisons along bayonets, rusty rifles, brass buckles and House, anil that the explosion dam first Wednesday of January of each tho route and etappe houses, not to buttons all find ready sale. When the reckon the burdens Imposed upon the supply runs out tho relic sellers get in aged the property of the plaintiff in year. popnlation, who have to provide I the sum prayed for. Bv Lawler—A resolution directing vehicl •• and hospitals, and their losses > some more. It is believed that they buy There was a very clever escape the Committee ot Naval Atlair« to in through theft and crimes of all de- , up old bayonets and bury them in the ground for a year. Thoy come out rusty, from the county jail in San Bernar quire into the expediency of immed scription». and a little battering and bending makes dino, Cal. Two prisoners, Carr and iately appropriating $50,000,000 to be A simple calculation, eonse (ucntly, | the crop a» good as the original. Walker, confined for burglary, man ex)>ende<l under the direction of the ought to lie in favor of those in Russia Ten cents is charged for looking at a aged to climb on one of the tanks an I Secretary of the Navy for the construc who raise their voices against degrad room in which Gen. McClellan did not ing Siberia into a re'epticle for “ lost tion, equipment and armament of cut their way through ths timlier into make his headquarters during the battit. the assessor's office aliove. No tools such few vessels of war as may be s mis.” Jadr nzeffsays: “Thesvstem j No charge is made for looking at the of deportation has converted Siberia were found and it is a mystery how deemed necessary. into a sewer; deportation has been the bullet holes in the old house; but if the they found the opportunity to do the cause ot much inju-t O ) and harm done visitor happens to find a ball imbedded Ceugreaalaaal Motes. woik without discovery. in the wood the guide will demand 25 The National Woman Suffrage As to tho country. By mixing the de- I cents for digging it out. The visitor It is reported at San Francisco that sociation has requests I President ported with the population, crime waa the directors of the Soul hern Paciti'- 1 Cleveland to veto the Edmunds poly accorded a wider »cope. The exiles | leaves with his prize and is ready to are at present in an extremely miser- i swear that it came from a musket in and share holders of the Oregon A gamy bill. able nnd objectionable condition, and the llanos of a friend who died in that California have come to an under The Committee on Commerce has Siberia receives, instead of useful battle. The general belief is—and a well- standing regarding the terms for the a numerous, homeless and used rille which hangs in the kitchen transfer of tiie latter ruad to the 1 authorized D<dph to favorably report workers, proletariat. By the present de- I near* out the idea—that the occupant Southern Pacific system. Whether : his bil| to establish a sub-port of entry la»y plorable condition of the banished the any papers 11 id l>een signed making 1 and port of call at Port Angeles, punishment inflicted does not leidto of the house shoots the balls into the weather-tioards in the winter and digs the sale absolute he was not certain of, W. T. reform, but yields a result quite the Tire electoral count bill, which wss reverse, consisting in tho demoraliza- >hem out in the summer. Pieces of but ladievi <1 the transaction will lie satisfactorily concluded within the referred to the altorney-generul for l on of tho exiles nnd an increaso in Imfnb are sold for 23 cents. A Philadel n-xt fi-w days. The completion of the examination and repnt al Washing vagabond.am and crime.” — Lo.idO'i phia delegation to the general assembly of the Knights of Iaibor has a piece of a California 4 Or-gon to A.-hland de ton, has bi'Cii returned to the l'resi- , /‘oil. liotnn which he prize«! highly until soma fends entirely ii|«>n this suceeisful j dent for his action. one called his attention to the spout at With reference to the establishment termination, and should they fail, tile —“A rtepostt of precious stones of tached to it. and then he tumbled to the < oinplete Construction gang at work of a free delivery system at Seattle, as rare k.nd known as ‘golden beryl,’ fact that he was carrying a piece of tea • n the California railway will immed provided in tiie new law, the firct as- the has recently been found in the Berk kettle. There is no doubt that the old sistant post mas* or-g>-neral says it is la'cly l>e taken off ami the comi letion shire hills,” say» the Boston 'i'ran- house was riddled with bullets during of the road delayed for an indefinite 1 pos>it»le that the service cannot be ex- tcript. “Specimens of thin gem are during the fight, but they were a'l gone |s riod. Alsilil fifty-one and one-half ‘ tended to this ami other cities until occasionally met with in the hands of ten years ago. It is unsafe to buy any miles of road yet remain to 1« con | tiie first of next July, as there is now collector», but it has never before been relics on the Seven Pines battle- field. st ruled before connection can l>e no appropriation for the extension found in sufficient quantity to become The only thing the visitor is sure of ia made with the Oregon and California, He transmitted estimates to Congre-* ! an article ot trade. When cut. the when he cuts the cane himself from the the present end of the track being [ for the new service asking for an ap I »tones are of a beautiful golden color, ground.—Richmond (Va.) Cor. Philadel about twenty-five nnlaa from ths propriation to cairy the law iuto iu>- I exceedingly bald aud of great bril- phia News. I mediate effect boundary line. I i Usaoy." v -* -r-